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ANDOVER VS. HARVARD, '87.The freshmen went to Andover, yesterday, and were defeated by the score of 16 to 0. The freshmen seemed to lose confidence in themselves and played the game in a listless fashion. The batting of the Andovers was clean and sure, while '87 was totally unable to hit Vinton. The only good playing by the freshmen was done by the battery, and by Loud and Cowling. The score follows...
...made errors on comparatively easy balls, some of his plays have been brilliant and his pickups are wonderful. At the bat he has made no hits since the first Yale game, when he put two hot ones to his credit. His base-running as yet is rather listless and he is too much inclined to watch where the ball goes when it leaves his bat. All these faults, however, can be remedied with careful practice by another season...
...Lanman dwelt especially on the moral effect of athletics. He would fear for the future of a listless boy; but if one had some object to work for - such as was furnished by boating, baseball and foot-ball - it would prove the best possible safeguard against drunkenness and the kindred evils which beset a college life...
...eyed wanderer haunts the classic shades of Harvard, looking out upon the world with a dreamy eye of listless melancholy. For years I have seen him stand, day after day, at certain hours, upon the curbing or near the fence hard by some well frequented thoroughfare, and gaze - gaze with an unutterable yearning in his countenance and such a hopeless expression of resigned patience in his look that many times I have been tempted to stop and commiserate the sorrows of this noble unfortunate. Cold conventionality has held me back. And I have asked with Homer...
...education. He has issued a circular advising that all the boys in the higher schools of the country shall be made to play games. The physical condition of the pupils is not what German opinion would have it. While the boys are proficient in their studies, they are weak, listless and unenterprising. The remedy is to be sought by official direction in out-door games requiring skill and agility. The words of Dr. Crosby would have had more weight had they been less sweeping. He spoke like an extremist...